{"id":30382,"date":"2013-03-19T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/03\/19\/294378\/iran-marks-oil-nationalization-day\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:58:45","slug":"iran-marks-oil-nationalization-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/iran-marks-oil-nationalization-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran marks oil nationalization day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Iran has marked the 62nd anniversary of the nationalization of its oil industry as a momentous breakthrough in the nation&#8217;s movement for independence, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, 1961, members of the Iranian parliament passed a bill introduced by then Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq on the nationalization of the oil industry.<\/p>\n<p>Mosaddeq garnered the support of his nationalist party and religious groups led by prominent cleric, Ayatollah Abolqasem Kashani, for the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say before nationalization of Iran\u2019s oil industry, the British government, which controlled Iran&#8217;s oil industry through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, reaped higher profits from Iran&#8217;s oil resources than the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p>Some scholars believe that nationalization of Iran\u2019s oil industry was the main reason behind the 1953 joint CIA-MI6-sponsored coup d&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9tat, codenamed Operation Ajax, which overthrew Mosaddeq.<\/p>\n<p>ASH\/SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Iran has marked the 62nd anniversary of the nationalization of its oil industry as a momentous breakthrough in the nation&#8217;s movement for independence, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, 1961, members of the Iranian parliament passed a bill introduced by then Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq on the nationalization of the oil industry.<\/p>\n<p>Mosaddeq garnered the support of his nationalist party and religious groups led by prominent cleric, Ayatollah Abolqasem Kashani, for the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say before nationalization of Iran&rsquo;s oil industry, the British government, which controlled Iran&#8217;s oil industry through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, reaped higher profits from Iran&#8217;s oil resources than the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p>Some scholars believe that nationalization of Iran&rsquo;s oil industry was the main reason behind the 1953 joint CIA-MI6-sponsored coup d&#8217;&eacute;tat, codenamed Operation Ajax, which overthrew Mosaddeq.<\/p>\n<p>ASH\/SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}